Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics

 

Special Issue on: "Current Issues in Crises: Business, Governance and Ethics Perspectives"

Guest Editors:
Prof. Khaled Hussainey, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Dr. Fadi Alkaraan, University of Lincoln, United Kingdom

Despite the substantial contributions of social research, how to grant greater voice and influence to marginalised sectors of society worldwide remains neglected. Third sector organisations, politics, civil society involvement, development and developing countries, labour, the public interest, political economy, and until recently, social and environmental accounting, require more attention (Hopper and Bui, 2016). The recent years witnessed global crises which can't be ignored, the COVID-19 pandemic and economic collapse, climate change, the current energy price crisis, food insecurity, Ukraine and Syria crises, Myanmar, and Afghanistan conflicts, humanitarian risks and refugees. Last year 80 million around the world were forced to flee their homes due to violence and conflict.

Corruption causes economic underperformance with a wide range of corrosive effects on societies. It undermines democracy and the rule of law. There is extensive research exposing the negative effects of corruption (e.g., loss of governance capacity, decrease of economy growth, or income inequality) and the conditions it is likely to occur (e.g. inefficient government, weak control mechanisms, lack of transparency and ineffective use of available resources) (Sikka and Lehman, 2015; Grossi & Pianezzi, 2018).

Mainstream theorists may see accounting policies and systems as serving capital market needs, but accounting is not immune to politics or political struggles, and it can serve systems and institutions that detrimentally affect humanity (Hopper, Lassou, Soobaroyen, 2017; Alawattage, & Azure, 2021). Effective accounting, accountability and governance mechanisms will have greater trust and confidence in private and public-sector leaders and increase their credibility and legitimacy (Alkaraan and Floyd, 2020).

This special issue aims to invite submissions related to corporate governance practices and business ethics in times of crisis. We will focus on financial and non-financial crises. These include – but are not limited to - the COVID-19 crisis, the Ukraine crisis, the global financial crisis, climate change crisis, and financial, and political corruption. It aims to bring together rigorous manuscripts that advance governance and ethics research in times of crisis. We call for manuscripts that deal with national and international crises. We are interested in conceptual, theoretical, methodological, empirical, case studies and review studies.

References:

Alawattage, C., & Azure, J. (2021). Behind the world bank's ringing declarations of "social accountability": Ghana's public financial management reform. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 78, 102075.

Alkaraan, F. and Floyd, D. (2020), Rethinking of the UK strategic public decision: outsourcing accountability and governance perspectives, Strategic Change, 29 (6) , 625-632.

Grossi, G & Pianezzi, D. (2018). The new public corruption: Old questions for new challenges. Accounting Forum, 42 (1), 86 – 101.

Hopper, T., & Bui. B. (2016). Has management accounting research been critical? Management Accou­nting Research, 31, 10-30.

Hopper, T., Lassou, P. J. C., & Soobaroyen, T. (2017). Globalisation, accounting and developing countries. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 43, 125-148.

Sikka, P., & Lehman, G. (2015). The supply-side of corruption and limits to preventing corruption within government procurement and constructing ethical subjects. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 28, 62-70.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Ethical awareness during times of crises
• Ethical decision-making in times of crises
• Ethical leadership, and moral courage in times of crises
• Corporate philanthropy in times of crises
• Corporate social responsibility during times of crises
• Corporate environmental crisis
• Corporate governance reforms in times of crises
• The board’s role in times of crises
• Internal audit’s moral courage in times of crises
• Ethics in tax practice in times of crises
• Corporate financial communication pre, during and post crises
• Bibliometrics analysis of financial crisis research
• Bibliometrics analysis of governance crisis research

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 28 February, 2023

Notification to authors: 30 April, 2023

Final versions due by: 30 June, 2023